1OpenLDAP 2.4 README 2 For a description of what this distribution contains, see the 3 ANNOUNCEMENT file in this directory. For a description of 4 changes from previous releases, see the CHANGES file in this 5 directory. 6 7 This is 2.4 release, it includes significant changes from prior 8 releases. 9 10REQUIRED SOFTWARE 11 Building OpenLDAP Software requires a number of software packages 12 to be preinstalled. Additional information regarding prerequisite 13 software can be found in the OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide. 14 15 Base system (libraries and tools): 16 Standard C compiler (required) 17 Cyrus SASL 2.1.21+ (recommended) 18 OpenSSL 0.9.7+ (recommended) 19 Reentrant POSIX REGEX software (required) 20 21 SLAPD: 22 BDB and HDB backends require Oracle Berkeley DB 4.4, 4.5, 23 4.6, 4.7, or 4.8. It is highly recommended to apply the 24 patches from Oracle for a given release. 25 26 CLIENTS/CONTRIB ware: 27 Depends on package. See per package README. 28 29 30MAKING AND INSTALLING THE DISTRIBUTION 31 Please see the INSTALL file for basic instructions. More 32 detailed instructions can be found in the OpenLDAP Admnistrator's 33 Guide (see DOCUMENTATION section). 34 35 36DOCUMENTATION 37 The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide is available in the 38 guide.html file in the doc/guide/admin directory. The 39 guide and a number of other documents are available at 40 <http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/guide.html>. 41 42 The distribution also includes manual pages for most programs 43 and library APIs. See ldap(3) for details. 44 45 The OpenLDAP website is available and contains the latest LDAP 46 news, releases announcements, pointers to other LDAP resources, 47 etc.. It is located at <http://www.OpenLDAP.org/>. 48 49 The OpenLDAP Software FAQ is available at 50 <http://www.openldap.org/faq/>. 51 52 53SUPPORT / FEEDBACK / PROBLEM REPORTS / DISCUSSIONS 54 OpenLDAP Software is user supported. If you have problems, please 55 review the OpenLDAP FAQ <http://www.openldap.org/faq/> and 56 archives of the OpenLDAP-software and OpenLDAP-bugs mailing lists 57 <http://www.openldap.org/lists/>. If you cannot find the answer, 58 please enquire on the OpenLDAP-software list. 59 60 Issues, such as bug reports, should be reported using our our 61 Issue Tracking System <http://www.OpenLDAP.org/its/>. Do not 62 use this system for software enquiries. Please direct these 63 to an appropriate mailing list. 64 65 66CONTRIBUTING 67 See <http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html> for 68 information regarding how to contribute code or documentation 69 to the OpenLDAP Project for inclusion in OpenLDAP Software. 70 While you are encouraged to coordinate and discuss the development 71 activities on the <openldap-devel@openldap.org> mailing list 72 prior to submission, it is noted that contributions must be 73 submitted using the Issue Tracking System 74 <http://www.openldap.org/its/> to be considered. 75 76--- 77OpenLDAP: pkg/ldap/README,v 1.40.2.14 2010/04/13 20:22:14 kurt Exp 78 79This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>. 80 81Copyright 1998-2010 The OpenLDAP Foundation. 82All rights reserved. 83 84Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 85modification, are permitted only as authorized by the OpenLDAP 86Public License. 87 88A copy of this license is available in the file LICENSE in the 89top-level directory of the distribution or, alternatively, at 90<http://www.OpenLDAP.org/license.html>. 91 92OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation. 93